Best Friends, Sharing ‘Two Sides Of The Same Heart’

Starr Cookman and Kylee Moreland Fenton have been inseparable since childhood. They live on the same street. Kylee, a nurse, was present for the delivery of Starr’s son, Rowan. And when Rowan came home from the hospital breathing rapidly and spitting up his food, both friends were alarmed — even when the pediatrician said he was doing fine.

“Then I said, ‘I’m concerned. Why would he just for no reason be breathing a hundred times a minute?’ ” Kylee recalls asking. With that, the doctor sent them to the children’s hospital. That visit saved Rowan’s life. There was something wrong with Rowan’s heart — and he was rushed to surgery.

“And I remember like looking at you and thinking, ‘Wow, we really are two sides of the same heart,’ ” Starr tells Kylee. “Boy, if we ever wondered why we were given this friendship …”

Rowan is now almost 13, and not a day goes by, Kylee says, that she doesn’t look at her friend’s son and think about how lucky they are to have him.

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